HAAR breaks ground for new office

7:51 PM,
Apr. 2, 2013

Members of the HAAR celebrate the ground-breaking of their new office at Classic Drive in Hattiesburg.

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The Hattiesburg Area Association of Realtors (HAAR) held a ground-breaking Tuesday at 411 Classic Drive for its new main office.

Plans for the new building began in 2008, when the HAAR purchased the land next to Uncle Bob's Self Storage on Classic Drive. HAAR President Betty Jo Ison - whose mother was the organization's first female president - said the project is something she's had in mind for the last several years.

"We paid cash for the land, and we were going to start building the next year," Ison explained. "But that's kind of when the economy started going down, so we decided to wait for a ...